#BML16 – Hopes and Dreams (and Fears)

This Saturday (25th June) I’ll be heading off to my first blogger conference #BML16 or Britmums Live, held at The Brewery in Central London. This will be my first ever conference I’ve been too, so I’m really excited and nervous all at the same time. I booked my ticket for this conference back in January when I had only just started blogging, and I thought that June was so far away, but now it is actually here and it is all happening on Saturday!

In the run up to the conference I started to think about what I wanted to get from it, what talks I would go to, and what bloggers and brands I wanted to meet. The lovely people at #BML16 have been sending everyone daily emails whipping us up into a frenzy with information on the brands and sponsors who will be there, as well as enticing us about food and wine! It all sounds amazing, as well as making me feel slightly overwhelmed.

So to help me most the best of the day, and to give me some objectives here’s my hopes and dreams for The Pramshed at #BML16:

Hopes

To meet my lovely co-host Fi from A Mum Track Mind. We have been running the linky #fortheloveofBLOG for 7 weeks now and are both attending #BML16, I’m really looking forward to meeting Fi, having a natter and getting a snapshot of us both to feature on our linky homepage.

Learning how I can get the most from my blog, I would love to go to the Pinterest and SEO sessions, I feel that these would hugely benefit my blog and also provide something tangible that I can apply to my job as a Project Manager in an advertising agency. I would also like to go to the session on making money from my blog, and seeing what I can learn from this and how I can apply it, and working out if it is something I would like to do.

Chatting to the brands and leaving my business cards, especially with Munchkin, MAM, Affilinet, Blue Iron, Fellowes, Boots Soltan, Johnsons and DC Thomson – all that I could see working with my blog. As well as chatting to all the other fabulous brands, and seeing the model Harry at the Bollox stand with a glass of bubbles at midday.

Enjoying the excellent food and wine on offer, hopefully outside in the sunshine.

Meeting some amazing bloggers who host brilliant linky’s that I have regularly been taking part in, this includes the lovely Franca from A Moment With Franca who I helped guest co-host #KCACOLS with a couple of month’s ago, and Maria from Suburban Mum. Meeting Becky from Cuddle Fairy, and Louise from Pink Peak Bear.

That I make some excellent friends from the day, lots of us have already been chatting for a while on What’s App and Twitter, and I can’t wait to meet them in person.

Being a relatively newbie blogger, I would love to gain some sort of sponsorship or collaboration with a brand, or receive products to review.

That I find a lot of inspiration for blogging, including ideas on ways to improve my blog and gain success.

Leaving with a big smile on my face (and not just a smile from the free wine!)

Fears

I don’t really have any fears, other than I hope the day lives up to my expectations, that I’m not starstruck when I see bloggers I consider famous, and that I’m not hiding somewhere in a corner checking Twitter!

I hope you enjoyed reading my post, and are looking forward to finding out how I got on at #BML16.